We tested 3 different WordPress websites on all DigitalOcean droplets
learnwebdevelopment.review/article/how-much-d...Posted Oct 26, 2017, 3:43 AM UTC
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This was crossposted into r/php and a commentator has noted
It seems to only cares about single request response time, not even loading required assets. Its also not using opcache, or other type of caches. To me its not surprising WordPress takes 500-1000ms to respond.
The linked poster is correct. This is a useless benchmark trying to use Wordpress to prove a point, but doing it terribly.
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NeoThermic, why do you call it useless? Maybe is just not useful/meaningful to you. or you just lack understanding of the problem. :) Anyway take look our reply on comment you mentioned
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The vast, and I mean vast majority of WordPress websites can get by just fine on the $5 droplet, but this article recommends $20 droplets so I am suspicious.
Most of the time if a website is loading poorly it's got nothing to do with CPU or RAM and everything to do with how the server and website are configured. Throwing money at more hardware resources is the wrong approach.
Yes, for very simple websites $5 droplet could serve you fine. But if you have serious traffic, $5 droplet will not be able to handle it.
Even we were not able to perform tests on magazine and shop website because MySQL crashes constantly (lack of RAM).
Our recommendation in case of poor performance was: "Hire PHP developer and optimize your code".
Regarding "loading poorly" - our research was not focused on performance in general (frontend, network&infrastructure, backend, DB, etc). Our focus was CPU and how CPU affect on PHP runtime.
You can not dispute much faster PHP runtime on faster CPU model. :)